In the past I would have agreed, however, with PDF/A we now have an open vetted standard. Further as of January 29th, Adobe made the reference to PDF 1.4 freely available (current version with Adobe 8 is reference 1.7). But version support in the proprietary sense does not matter if one is creating a PDF/A. The added benefit can be textual searching. A few resources: * http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/formats/fdd/fdd000125.shtml * http://www.aiim.org/standards.asp?id=25013 * http://www.adobe.com/enterprise/pdfs/pdfarchiving.pdf * http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PDF/A * http://www.pdfa.org/doku.php?id=start:en * http://www.pdf-tools.com/public/downloads/whitepapers/whitepaper-pdfa.pdf Thanks -- Dan At 3/9/2007 10:09 AM Friday, Simon DeWitt wrote: >I would recommend to use TIFF 6.0 instead of PDF. The PDF format >standard is to volatile. >We experienced a corruption issues with images that where scanned into >PDF 3.0/4.0 and when we want to open them in Adobe Reader 6.0. >Adobe comes out every couple years with a new standard for PDF's. >Currently they are marketing for 8.0. >Do you believe that they will continue supporting your 3.0/4.0/5.0/6.0 >PDF's? 10-20 Years from now? > >Simon De Witt Daniel W. Noonan, MLS, CDIA+ Electronic Records Manager/Archivist University Archives The Ohio State University 600 Ackerman Road, Room 5822 Columbus, OH 43202 614.247.2425 <mailto:[log in to unmask]>[log in to unmask] http://library.osu.edu/sites/archives/ List archives at http://lists.ufl.edu/archives/recmgmt-l.html Contact [log in to unmask] for assistance
